Thank you Mary

Well said.

Peace be with you.  

by Kevin Gosztola (211 articles, 113 quicklinks, 68 diaries, 809 comments) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 10:24:02 AM
 

My problem is Kucinich's constant hypocrisy

Why didn't Kucinich speak up when this was first happening, like to Senator Gravel? I sure did. And I spoke up about Iowa and NH debates. I wrote and called all over the place, networks and advertisers.

But then there DK goes again. He throws his support to Obama,so he PERSONALLY still has a chance in the race, even knowing Obama is completely opposite of everything DK stands for. Nukes, Free Trade, in bed with Pharma, etc. And kept voting to fund the war. John Edwards is the mainstream vs of DK and he knew he wouldn't stand a chance if Edwards came in first, instead of 2nd.

Sorry, I'm done fighting for DK when he doesn't hold up to his own claims.

by LindaSFNM (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 11 comments) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 11:58:03 AM
 

Thank You!

It is about time "we the people" demanded a fair debate among a variety of candidates before winnowing the field. While bemoaning the length of the process and voter apathy, mainstream media still trivializes the election by prematurely focusing on the front-runners and marginalizing any candidates with any novelty or uniqueness to their platform.  The press seems determined to reduce the election process to a horse race that's over before most Americans realize it has begun. By relentlessly concentrating on style over substance, strategy over integrity; we end up with a contest that is just as jejune as your average Miss America pageant. Instead of a much needed debate on the issues we get sound bites and a primary "contest" that amounts to a coronation of either of the media-anointed candidates: Tweedledum or Tweedledee.

by John Bowery (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 20 comments) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 1:07:54 PM
 

Thanks, Mary!

I'm with you, for what it's worth. 

Unfortunately, we are now all owned by GE.  If it doesn't keep the production lines running for the bombs and warplanes, it's not of any consequence.   

You can see that I've drifted off into hopeless catatonia, for the moment.  When (if) I return, I would love to assist you in any way possible.

For now, I'm tired of feeling as though I'm screaming into a vacuum.

by Digitboy (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 26 comments) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 2:42:28 PM
 

Confidence in the Democratic process continues to slide

The DLC is mostly bought and paid for. Donations come with mostly unspoken, but seemingly powerful muzzles that keep politicians quiet on substantive issues that might anger donor groups. Those few good souls with integrity wait too timidly for the opportune moment to show some courage and the moment for action passes.  I'm sure Howard Dean gets it, but he must think that his power is only granted and limited by powerful forces somewhere beyond his control who would take away the golden handcuffs being passed to the democrats.  Their lack of media savvy lets the President and Vice President get away with illegal wars, effective mass murder, and massive diversions of Billions of our federal dollars to the Military-Industrial-Media megalith that profits on never-ending war.  They need to grandly expose the lies with impeachment proceedings that hangs out the dirty, blood-stained laundry for all to see.

Well to Hell with cowardly, muted voices, who dare not speak up and stand up for the candidates who actually propose real and substantive changes.  To Hell with the muzzled, silent former populist who lets our Constitution get soiled with executive abuses of power and outright LIES sending us to illegal wars.  To Hell with us all, getting sent down the river with an abhorrent pack of lies and deceptions being tolerated by the DLC, intent on giving up another year to the real assholes in power, leaving us with a tattered, battered, and broken country and economy.  It will be sad justice when the complicit Democrats (complicit by their silence) get blamed for presiding over an economy in persistent recession.

Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, and may I add Christopher Dodd gave Americans in the know a sense of hope, when the continued illegal occupation of Iraq risks lives and the war mongering against Iran puts us all in jeopardy for the LIES of Empire. 

We are being actively betrayed.

• The Military Commissions Act of 2006
• The Authorization of the Use of Military Force
• The Patriot Act I and II 
• Dozens of laws with signing statements that attempt to negate any effect the law might have had.
• Countless Executive Orders that went unchallenged 

Three cheers for Dennis Kucinich and his Articles of Impeachment for that criminal liar Vice President Dick Cheney! 

Three cheers for Christopher Dodd, single-handedly blocking immunity for the telecoms who are complicit in spying on Americans without probable cause in violation of the FISA law.

Two cheers for Mike Gravel who speaks the truth, proved he can help lead a nation out of war, and has the credibility to put other Senators to shame for their current lack of action on issues that affect us all.

Jeers for those candidates who are simply mouthing populist positions.  Campaining for change is worthless, mealy-mouthed posturing when as a Senator and candidate one could effectively call for and advocate for impeachment. 

We all know that "our" representatives have to adhere to unspoken rules that constrain candidates from taking stands unpopular with the big money donors and media gatekeepers: Broadcast media, Pharma, Insurers, AIPAC, Defense (sic) Contractors, et cetera, ad nauseum.  But the Democratic party doesn't have to suck up to the Corporatocracy, especially not this year.  Everybody is fervently sick of the status quo.  Nobody wants endless war and lying fear mongers who crassly manipulate us.  The great majority of us see through the layers of deceptions and lies that sent us to war, and many, many more would get it if the Democrats were to hold impeachment hearings peeling back the lie after lie after lie after LIE.

The active deception, abuses of power, and betrayals of trust pile up like a mountain of elephant dung and we are told to shut up and keep quiet until the lying murderers waltz out of office leaving the country a mess and the Constitution is shreds.  Play nice 'cuz we have more important dead-end legislation to pretend to busy ourselves with.  Well to Hell with the two-faced, no account pretenders. 

If weak leadership thinks they can't bring impeachment because of threat or blackmail, well get over it!  We must band together.  Whip the whole Democratic Congress to stand outside the Capitol and make a grand statement to counter the credible threat.  Our representatives have been blackmailed before and our entire nation stands together when threatened. Even the CIA controlled media will have to report on that kind of spectacle and the accusations and threats will be partially nullified.  At least if something horrifying happens then we will really know who to blame and rise up to defend America from the real enemies of the Constitution.  One need not keep promises made to the devil while behind closed doors and under duress.  Get some spine! Stand up and speak out because your action is crucial and necessary for the survival of our Constitutional Democracy. 

Bring us real sunshine, a renewed commitment to uphold the Constitution, and investigations that expose and neutralize those real threats to peace and prosperity.  Lead us out of this darkness now, open the debate, and don't let us suffer another year of this tyrany.  Please.

by Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 130 comments) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 5:34:45 PM
 

Thanks Mary

All the democratic candidates should be supporting an open and public forum.  It's clear that the free exchange of ideas has been shut down, that carefully crafted sound bytes, that can change on a moments notice and be reinterpreted are the order of the day.

So outraged over the NBC debate and exclusion of Kucinich, unplugged my television - I'll get my news from alternative sources.  And as for the DNC - or DFA or the others - done with centrist candidates and a closed forum.  They have enough money for centrist sound bytes.

This country is failing to live up to its potential, ABC, NBC... have the power to be selectors - and I for one have had enough.

Unplug! 

by August Adams (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 442 comments) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 9:10:36 PM
 

Gravel and Kucinich

  The perfect solution to this whole issue would have been for Clinton, Obama, and Edwards to refuse to appear for the debate themselves.  It is true that if Edwards is truly opposed to the corporate control in this country, he could have started by demonstrating his unwillingness to allow corporate control of the democratic process occur.  I think there is little difference in the three (Clinton, Edwards, and Obama), though I do have a preference, but come on.  When are one of you going to really stand up for the American people?  It's time. 

by Crystal Purcell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 47 comments) on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 10:27:12 PM
 

A Failed Test of Integrity--But A++ in Opportunism

My heart sank when none of the "top 3" Dems had the courage, the character, or the integrity to tell NBC "Shove It!!" I'm writing in Kucinich next November.

This would be a worthy topic for Keith Olberman--or at least that day's 3 Worst Persons in the World.

by R. Queisser (7 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 62 comments) on Friday, January 18, 2008 at 3:32:46 AM
 

Mary's Grammar

And a fine broth of a lassie you must be, Mary.  Just don't forget please:  medium is the singular of media.  THAT'S what the founders would be spinning in their graves about.  Keep up the good work.  Scott Griffith.

by Scott Griffith (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 18 comments) on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 7:28:12 AM
 

Thank you, Mary

Thank you, Mary

I just wish you had given each of us a chance to be co-signers.

by Kenneth Briggs (125 articles, 88 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 108 comments) on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 9:29:32 AM
 

letter to Dean

I clicked on the link at the bottom of Mary's letter and signed the petition. I invite everyone that agrees with Mary and loves our constitution to do so as well. The bottom line is GE (a corporation) had more power than the Government (we the ppl) and control our every political stage front. The words of FDR echo in my mind and have for several years.   "Fascism is when Corporations Yield more power than Government."  This Nevada ordeal is and was fascism, no ends or Butts.

by shirley reese (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 316 comments) on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 10:15:13 AM
 

Presidential Election Rigging - Either Way Americans Lose

All Presidential Candidates for the 2008 election belong or are funded by a group started by Skull and Bones of Yale called the Council on Foreign Relations, a war mongering group that disguises itself as a think tank. Most members belong to Skull and Bones, the Bilderbergs, the Trilateral Commission, etc. just like Kerry and Bush (both Boneheads). Again, these Naz sympathizing groups have stacked both sides of the ticket to assure themselves control of the government.
Check it out
2008 Presidential Candidates Members of the CFR include:

Democrat CFR Candidates:

Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton (Yale Law, Editor Yale Review of Law and Social Action), John Edwards, Chris Dodd and Bill Richardson

Republican CFR Candidates:

Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain, Fred Thompson, Newt Gingrich

Corporate members include:

Halliburton of Dubai, British Petroleum, Dutch Royal Shell, Exxon Mobile, General Electric (NBC), Chevron, Lockheed Martin, Merck Pharmaceuticals, News Corp (FOX), Bloomberg, IBM, Time Warner, JP Morgan/ Chase Manhattan & several other major financial institutions.

Other Notable Members Include:

Dick Cheney (Director 1987-1988), John Kerry, Bill Clinton (Yale Law, met Hillary while attending), Al Gore, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Richard Nixon, John, David & Nelson Rockefeller, Condolezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Alan Greenspan (Director 1987-1988), Colin Powell, Henry Kissinger, Angelina Jolie (Yes, the actress has a five year term membership as an ambassador), Lewis �Scooter� Libby, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Maurice Hank Greenberg (Vice Chairman & Director).

The goals of the CFR are best described by its very own members. Bill Clinton’s Georgetown mentor and CFR member Carroll Quigley states: “The Council on Foreign Relations is the American branch of a society which originated in England… [and]…believes national boundaries should be obliterated and one world rule established.” Quigley differs from many of his CFR colleagues in that he believes their plan for a new world order should be more publicly disclosed. In his book Tragedy and Hope, Quigley concedes he is unique among his peers in that he believes the new world order plan of global government’s “role in history is significant enough to be known.” Quigley also admits that the two-party system allows for both groups to be controlled at the highest level but operate like bitter rivals. As Quigley says, this gives the voters the chance to “throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound of extreme shifts in policy.” Controlling Washington elite allowed private central banks to �dominate the political system…and economy of world as a whole” and implement a new system of “feudalist fashion” through “secret agreements.” Although he believes the CFR’s intentions should be more public, Quigley understands the average person doesn’t understand feudalism or serfdom and will never read his book.
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.” J. Edgar Hoover

President Kennedy said of Freemasonry: “The very word ’secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.” President John F. Kennedy � address to newspaper publishers, April 27, 1961

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American public.” Theodore Roosevelt

For a primer on these groups
http://iviewit.tv/senatecultbill.htm
http://iviewit.tv/CompanyDocs/Book/index.htm
http://iviewit.tv/

Take back America with a vote for either Ron Paul or Mike Gravel, the only two not affiliated with this scum ruining our country and the world. Stop watching CNN, a news organization founded by Luce a Skull member and their polls and debates, they are the propaganda filling your head with proverbial sh*t.
Best in reclaiming America
Eliot Bernstein
iviewit@iviewit.tv
530-529-4110

by iviewit (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 7:53:36 AM